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- Mexico to Pune, swine flu casts panic shadow
- City fights a losing battle with leprosy
- Zero-tolerance to maternal mortality
- Global Health: Swine Flu Threat Spreads Worldwide
- Dismal state of Primary Health Centres in India -Dismal state of Primary Health Centres in India
- Study suggests transfer of poor health from mother to child in India
- HC calls for guidelines for security at hospitals
- Increase budget for health -Increase budget for health
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- TOI: More fat people than hungry today: Aug 15, 2006
- Local drug cos may chip in to treat swine flu
- Citizens health goes awry
- HT: Beware! The milk you drink could ruin your health: August 29, 2012
- HT: Govt health scheme not good enough for heart treatments: August 06, 2012
- LM: Govt ready with radical health plan: August 02, 2012
- LM: A gift of insulin: July 31, 2012
- IE: Citys health in critical condition: July 25, 2012
- IE: How surgical fraud counts vary: July 25, 2012
- HT: 23% of dental patients start losing teeth by age 45: survey: July 25, 2012
- HT: Docs remove wombs at random for money under govt insurance scheme: July 17, 2012
- LM: NRHM fails to improve healthcare indicators: July 17, 2012
- HT: State public health care system set to get Rs 1,988-cr makeover: July 05, 2012
- IE: Health scheme launched: July 03, 2012
- LM: Text messages to aid maternity healthcare: July 02, 2012
- LM: India in race to contain untreatable tuberculosis: June 21, 2012
- LM: Indias overweight children are caught in a vicious cycle of ill health: June 12, 2012
- IE: Pvt hospitals flouting norms on bed quota for poor: Panel: May 28, 2012
- HT: To provide healthcare to both rich and poor, we need more public medical colleges:May 28, 2012
- HT: It is often said that scaling up public health programmes is a difficult task: May 17, 2012
- DNA: BMC hikes allocation for NGOs by 100%: May 16, 2012
- HT: Diabetes: lifestyle disease no. 1: May 07, 2012
- HT: Beware. Your lifestyle can ruin your health: May 07, 2012
- IE: Doctors signed into rural work, Maharashtra cant place them: May 03, 2012
- Gadchirolis trudging doctors spell hope
- LM: Lessons from Melghats health crisis: April 17, 2012
- IE: Privatisation of radiological services opposed: March 19, 2012
- DNA: Treatment for poor not free: Study: January 19, 2012
- IE: Put up information about hospitals, medicines on website, HC tells govt: January 04, 2012
- IE: After eliminating leprosy, the price of letting guard down: November 23, 2011
- HT: Profit-driven hospitals are not investing in much-needed speciality treatments: November 23, 11
- IE: GoM on encephalitis focuses on sanitation, safe drinking water: November 22, 2011
- HT: No regulation to prevent hospitals from paying doctors: November 22, 2011
- HT: Unethical practice in Corporate hospitals: November 22, 2011
- HT: Referral fees, or bribes? in Corporate hospitals: November 22, 2011
- HT: Target practice takes its toll: November 21, 2011
- LM: A nutrition crisis amid prosperity: October 13, 2011
- LM: India has shortfall of 2.6 million health workers, says report: September 2011, 2011
- DNA: A PPP in healthcare fights to mitigate a fatal cancer: August 31, 2011
- IE: Too much TV viewing may take years off your life: Study: August 17, 2011
- IE: Fortification with micronutrients is crucial in fighting anaemia: August 19, 2011
- HT: Rights panel takes up J’khand fluorosis issue: August 18, 2011
- DNA: Health scene poor in 57 districts: August 11, 2011
- HT:India’s health infrastructure is in a comatose state and the poor are paying a heavy price: Aug 4
- HT: 1,190 died of malaria in city last year: RTI: July 12, 2011
- HT: In sickness and death: July 06, 2011
- HT: CBSE to award schools with good sanitation facilities: July 01, 2011
- TOI: Two hosps in suburbs to get MRI machines: June 7, 2011
- TOI: Patients suffer as costly X-ray tools go missing at Sion hospital: June 3, 2011
- TOI: Pvt doctors must report cases of malaria: BMC: June 03, 2011
- Mid-Day: As city ails, Mum’s the word at BMC meetings: June 22, 2011
- IE: Crusader for equal access to healthcare: June 29, 2011
- HT: Cell phone use may cause cancer: WHO: June 02, 2011
- TOI:Poor facilities & rising cost of healthcare pushing people towards more expensive private setups -June 10, 2011
- LM: Ambulances bridge healthcare gaps: June 12, 2011
- IE: Lifeline Express in Thane for a month: May 07, 2011
- MM: CM annouces revamped scheme for poor patients in the state: April 22, 2011
- IE: The war against germs: April 14, 2011
- DNA: Diarrhoea? Antibiotics may be the root: March 14, 2011
- DNA: A Will to not live as a vegetable: March 10, 2011
- LM: Only the fit can help the planet: March 08, 2011
- TOI: State set to launch free ambulance service: February 23, 2011
- IE: Bihar plans health cards for 3.4 cr children under 14 years: February 22, 2011
- HT: Health of the nation: February 22, 2011
- Mid-Day: Ambulance in 15 mins: February 18, 2011
- TOI: Govt sets guidelines for wellness centres: February 16, 2011
- TOI: Dial M for Maladies: February 04, 2011
- HT: Soon, health cover for all Indians: January 17, 2011
- LM: Sickly India needs universal healthcare by 2020: January 12, 2011
- HT: Running for cover: January 04, 2011
- IE: Health insurance for urban poor on the cards: January 03, 2011
- DNA: Sweet bite for hospital hygiene offenders in West Bengal: December 07, 2010
- DNA: Cellphones may put your child at risk of brain tumor: December 07, 2010
- TOI: Banned anti-obesity pill readily available: November 29, 2010
- HT: Towering trouble: November 16, 2010
- TOI: Diabetes test could cost as little as 5: November 16, 2010
- TOI: Sour start: City yet to flag off diabetes census project: November 10, 2010
- HT: One-window healthcare project to start in April: November 02, 2010
- LM: Drug control agency drafts rules on third-generation antibiotics: November 02, 2010
- MM:City looks forward to participate in the 6th World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on October 09
- IE: The buzz around malaria: October 25, 2010
- DNA: Pending dues driving health scheme in Maharashtra for the poor sick: October 25, 2010
- DNA: SMS service to fix fleecing doctors, cut medicine costs: October 22, 2010
- TOI: Now, liver transplant is affordable: October 21, 2010
- HT: The Population Stabilisation Fund must ensure a financial cover for the elderly: October 14,2010
- TOI: Kirtans to help spread cleanliness message: October 14, 2010
- IE: Diabetes, hypertension screening programme in slums from next week: October 01, 2010
- MM: Hospitals will be fined for turning away patients: September 10, 2010
- BS: India’s health: September 09, 2010
- DNA: New medical policy to ensure docs dont over-drug patients: September 09, 2010
- LM: Improving vaccination kicking polio: September 08, 2010
- TOI: Soon, hospitals will have to give info on facilities: September 01, 2010
- LM: Govt plans common healthcare standards: August 25, 2010
- DNA: Standalone dialysis centres are on civic bodys agenda: August 24, 2010
- LM: New venture seeks to start low-cost rural hospital chain: August 19, 2010
- TOI: 15-day-old cold? check for swine flu: August 17, 2010
- LM: Haryana’s sanitation sensation: August 02, 2010
- TOI: Active citizens take preventive steps: July 30, 2010
- TOI: BMC turns to private medicos, treated nets: July 30, 2010
- TOI: City swarms diagnostic labs for quick malaria tests: July 29, 2010
- LM: Shock to the system: July 23, 2010
- DNA: Government alone can’t fight cancer, diabetes and strokes: July 23, 2010
- TOI: H1N1: Parents must keep an eye on kids: July 21, 2010
- TOI: Evening OPDs at BMC hosps for malaria patients: July 21, 2010
- DNA: Soon, cellphone towers may not be allowed atop houses: July 20, 2010
- DNA: Biting reality: Mumbai is new malaria capital: July 16, 2010
- LM: Emerging urban health challenge: July 13, 2010
- LM: Falling through the cracks in the state healthcare system: July 13, 2010
- IE: Peripheral hospitals not in sound health: study: July 13, 2010
- IE: Health insurance move to check abuse: July 13, 2010
- IE: We, the 116 crore people: July 09, 2010
- DNA: ‘Expensive’ mill land cause of malaria in South Mumbai: June 26, 2010
- 60 cases of swine flu detected in Mumbai, BMC gears up: June 24, 2010
- DNA: Spread your mosquito nets, the malaria menace is back in Mumbai: June 22, 2010
- DNA: Govt aims for cheap ‘n’ best health care: April 26, 2010
- DNA: Community involvement a must to fight asthma in city: May 10, 2010
- DNA: Thalassaemia test important for to-be mothers: May 8, 2010
- TOI: Whats ailing Mumbaikars: April 28, 2010
- TOI: Respiratory ailments killing more citizens: April 28, 2010
- DNA: Prick up your ears: Syringes are a con trick: April 28, 2010
- DNA: Govt aims for cheap ‘n’ best health care: April 26, 2010
- HT: More hospital beds for suburbs: April 07, 2010
- ET: The sorry state of public health: April 02, 2010
- DNA: Supreme Court to give unauthorised nursing homes a year more: April 01, 2010
- DNA: 1,100 nursing homes in Mumbai illegal from April 1: March 31, 2010
- Free treatment of heart, kidney and bone diseases for BPL persons, says Government: March 12, 2010
- TOI: Health Hazards: February 26, 2010
- IE: India’s rural healthcare vacuum needs to be urgently addressed: February 10, 2010
- DNA: Mumbai needs more ventilators: January 16, 2010
- BS: Reviving public health services: December 24, 2009
- India has ‘world-class health care’, say Canadians -Canadians are increasingly looking to India for timely medical treatment as wait periods under the
- New oral vaccine to be introduced to check spread of polio in India -India’s Pulse Polio Immunisation programme began in 1995-96 and is one of the largest public health
- Portal to provide health information in rural India -Delhi to have a public health university New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The national capital will have
- Centre to infuse life into health plans, protect 6 crore poor families -Irda has analysed efficacy of all domestic insurance schemes and has examined healthcare plans in
- India developing own influenza vaccine for first time: Azad -Public health challenges will continue to put pressure on our system and we have to be better
- Invoke the Public Health Act to eliminate cholera -Because simple by-laws enshrined in the Public Health Act, such as simple personal hygiene have
- Global Health Seminar Examines HIV/AIDS -To address this growing concern, the SDSU Graduate School of Public Health will host a series of
- Four lakh children die from pneumonia every year in India: WHO -Several global agencies including Indian Academy of Paediatrics, Public Health Foundation of India
- Popular Front of India to hold 15 days National Public Health Campaign -The campaign would be held with cooperation of local education and health department officers will
- Doctors call for more investment in public health -New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) With many countries planning to cut their health budgets because of the
- Trends of the public health research output from India during 2001-2008 -An understanding of how public health research output from India is changing in relation to the
- Health sector needs booster shot -Public health expert Dr R Potdar said, “There is political will to spend on health. Every year, the
- Abuse of National Health Insurance Scheme -Any good measure from the public health sector regulators of the pharmaceutical trade remains to be
- Delhi to have a public health university -The institutes will be built by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), a public-private
- A year on, smoking ban just on paper -NEW DELHI: It was one of independent India’s most ambitious interventions to improve public health
- Mosquito-borne Virus Poses New Health Threat -… but we are aware of outbreaks in Asia and Europe, said Caroline Grondin, a spokesperson for the
- Now, Mamata to upgrade railway hospital to medical college -The minister Sunday inaugurated the 631st CRC in eastern India under the Kolkata … the physically
- Why is extra-pulmonary TB not a public health priority in India? -For public health reasons, governments want to find all cases of pulmonary TB as they are spreading
- India’s swine flu toll 212, Tamiflu sales allowed -The retail sale of Tamiflu was banned by the government and its distribution was permissible only th
- Mobile vans to screen slumdwellers for malaria -Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will use multi-specialty mobile vans, used till
- Pneumonia cases among children highest in India: WHO -Dr Mathuram Santosham, professor of International Health and Paediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomb
- 63% turnout on first day of Pulse Polio -Of the 13,00000 children under the age of five years, BMC could cover only 8,34000 children on Sunda
- Ministry spends Rs. 550 million on IDP health -The Ministry provides health services to this population through its well established curative and p
- Can the World’s Fisheries Survive Our Appetites? -Scottish fisherman Mike Nichol on board the trawler Carina in the North Atlantic helps haul in the c
- Inside the Fight Against a Flu Pandemic -A boy going to school wearing a surgical mask to prevent being contaminated by swine flu.
- 49 polio cases in Bihar, says report -Patna, Aug 25 (PTI) As many as 49 cases of polio have been detected in Bihar, a report said. Most
- WHO predicts ‘explosion’ of swine flu cases -BEIJING The global spread of swine flu will endanger more lives as it speeds up in coming months a
- Azad calls state health ministers’ meeting to review NRHM -It seeks to provide effective healthcare to rural population throughout the country with special foc
- India reports 163 polio cases this year -… the India Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) that comprises of national and international experts in t
- Swine flu not as fatal as bird flu: Thakur -He also advised medical colleges to start courses in Master of Public Health. Investigations and res
- TOI: In Satara, couples defer babies for cash carrots: August 14, 2009
- Maharashtra trying to rope in private hospitals -Jairaj Thanekar, BMC Executive Health Officer, said 1300 people were screened at the Kasturba Hospit
- India ranks 171 out of 175 in public health spending, says WHO study -BANGALORE: While the public health Bill amendment is still pending with the cabinet and there is pan
- Private hospitals agree to help in treating swine flu patients -Meanwhile, at a press conference at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters on Tue
- TOI: Indias public health spend among lowest: August 11, 2009
- Harnessing India’s healing traditions for public health -The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the global population, including ru
- Maharashtra and Gujarat on high alert as H1N1 kills two more people -… after Zanai Bhosale, 7, tested positive for the H1N1 virus, said the disaster management committ
- TOI: Malaria is real epidemic: Docs: August 07, 2009
- DNA: Swin Flu – What should a patient do: August 06, 2009 (pdf)
- Eradication of smallpox from India remarkable feat: WHO -Eradication of smallpox is the greatest achievement in public health during the 20th century. This a
- Govt to set up 7765 health sub centres -PATNA: The state government has decided to set up 7765 health sub centres and 1544 additional public
- WHO sounds all-India alert -Special DG (Public Health) of Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Director National Inst
- India must speed up health spending, says Gates -The phenomenal progress we have seen in India is one of the main reasons for our optimism, he said,
- WHO says we can’t fight H1N1, India says we can -India has not reported a single H1N1 death so far. “India has a fairly robust public health system,
- India ‘racing’ to wipe out polio -A recent article in the American Journal of Public Health suggests India’s district polio eradicatio
- Doctors to continue strike despite termination notices -Mumbai is the worst-affected, since a majority of striking doctors are from the city, including resi
- Kohinoor Hospital Embraces Healthy Building -These cooling systems meet the demanding criterion of minimum power consumption as specified for Gre
- Malaria a growing concern -Meanwhile, the health minister said that West Bengal ranks first among states to arrange blood donat
- DFID bid to improve health sector in Bihar -Taking the first step in this direction, the DFID, India, on Wednesday organized a workshop in which
- India’s health budget up by nearly Rs.4000 crore -The main focus is on 18 states that have weak public health infrastructure – Arunachal Pradesh, Assa
- Shortage of 28000 health centres in India: Economic Survey -The survey said the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) seeks to strengthen the public health deliv
- Health, commerce ministries seek infra status for healthcare -A WHO survey indicated that India ranks at 171 out of the 175 nations in terms of percentage of GDP
- Worldwide healthcare travel revenue to hit USD 100 billion by 2012 -Asia is well placed to grow in Medical Tourism as healthcare standards and technology adoption conti
- Rural health mission to get 17% more funds -There is a clear intent of continuing and further strengthening the NRHM, said K. Srinath Reddy
- NYC, Israel, India Unite for Global Health -Collaboration began when a leading YU faculty member from India suggested that the school’s new
- Gestational diabetes on the rise in India -Dr S Elango, director of Public Health, said that TN was the first state in the Country to introduce
- DNA: Several states have launched novel schemes to widen National Rural Health Mission’s: June 22,09
- Old illness’ rips through medical cover -Agrees consumer activist Arun Saxena, president of the International Consumer Right Protection
- First case of swine flu in Mumbai -On June 18, he was admitted to the BMC-run Kasturba hospital that has a special ward for swine flu
- Geometric to demonstrate solutions for Medical Imaging at CARS 2009 -Mumbai : Geometric Limited will exhibit its capabilities in software engineering for … “Adoption
- Mumbai airport gets thermal sensors to screen flu patients -The National Disaster Management Authority has been asked to prepare a plan to check spread of the v
- Civic body will stub out tobacco shops near schools -The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday decided to initiate a drive to make areas wi
- HC rejects plea against rehab project near BPCL -The state government and the BMC had, however, informed the court that there is no security threat.
- 10 tested positive for Influenza A H1N1, India -The Central Rapid Response Team is assisting the State for instituting public health measures that
- 1200 physicians to attend medical meet in India -With rapid development, India is focusing on health care and rural health mission of the central gov
- TOI: State may issue norms on cell towers: June 03, 2009
- DNA: Eat in aluminium and forget what you ate: June 02, 2009
- World Tobacco Day highlights health hazards as 9 out of 10 deaths … -The five year-old Healis – Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health is an organization dedicated to
- TOI: Ignoring poor patients can land hosp mgmt in jail: May 31, 2009
- Hepatitis B: The Silent Killer -“We have been collecting data of the prevalence of hepatitis B during the blood donation at the bloo
- 5500 schoolkids use tobacco daily, says study -Mobilising Youth for Tobacco Related Initiatives In India) conducted by HRIDAY in collaboration
- New Delhi hospital continues operations without blood bank license -The Sushruta Trauma Centre in New Delhi, India, remains operational even after the State Blood
- TOI: Team of UK doctors helps heal little hearts: May 15, 2009
- Anti-tobacco lobby condemns -“This is contrary to the standards set by a pro-public health government which is responsible for
- Flu: Place public health above corporate interest
- Malaria on the rise, BMC unprepared
- IE: Lessons from a frugal innovator: April 23, 2009
- TOI: New ordinance shields docs, what about patients?: April 15, 2009
- LM: 5 emergency prescriptions: April 07, 2009
- SPAN Magazine: Diagnostics For All: January / February 2009 -By DANIEL GORELICK
- MM: More ESIC hospital beds at affordable rates: February 04, 2009
- IE: Civic hospitals to aid citys poor patients: January 08, 2009
- TOI: Non-med services in govt hospitals to be privatised: January 08, 2009
- TOI: BMC plans first med college for suburbs at Cooper: November 11, 2008
- TOI: State is more accountable on rural health: November 07, 2008
- LM: Contradictions in the Indian concept of hygiene: October 14, 2008
- IE: City to join global hand-scrubbing movement: October 13, 2008
- DNA: Public hearing highlights lacunae in rural healthcare: October 10, 2008
- LM: Indias poor get health care in a card on Health care: August 27, 2008
- ET: Vote for larger healthcare spend in coming election: July 31, 2008
- IE: BMC to conduct free medical check-ups in its schools: July 30, 2008 (xls)
- LM: The malaise in hospital services: July 14, 2008 (xls)
- IE: At sion hospital, EDUSAT project ready for take-off: July 08, 2008 (xls)
- DNA: Electronic health records boon or bane? June 20, 2008
- TOI: Hosps must give patients’ records in 72 hours: MCI: June 20, 2008
- TOI: Sevan aliments you should be wary of: June 10, 2008
- IE: 1,500 families say no to polio drops: May 23, 2008
- TOI: Next polio drive slated for June 1: May 23, 2008
- IE: State’s largest blood bank to be opened at JJ Hospital: May 22, 2008
- MM: MM Reporter called up top hospitals desperately seeking a bed in an ICU no vacancy : May 22,08
- LM: World Bank starts fresh probe into health care fraud: May 20, 2008
- TOI: Statistics reveal expenditure on education and health has shrinking over 5 years: May 08, 2008
- IE: Lifeline Express has a long way to go: April 24, 2008
- DOWNTOWNPLUS: The ENT Hospital at Fort requires funds for new equipment: April 12, 2008
- DNA: Wanted: 6 Lakh Docs, 3 Lakh Nurses: April 09, 2008
- TOI: They breathe life into the rural healthcare network: April 14, 2008
- IE: World Health Day Street play highlights patients’ rights: April 08, 2008
- TOI: On World Health Day, Doctors Are Under The Scanner For Corruption: April 08, 2008
- DNA: Lifeline Express set to pull into town: April 08, 2008
- LM: Pune hospitals seen as model for health care workers’ safety: April 04, 2008
- FE: Current regulatory framework for healthcare insufficient: experts: March 30, 2008
- DNA: Hospitals warned of action for ignoring the poor: April 01, 2008
- TOI: Staff crunch hits services at municipal hospitals: March 26, 2008
- IE: Good samaritans set foot in Sassoon: March 20, 2008
- LM: QUICK EDIT – Why act like an ostrich: March 06, 2008
- DNA: Complaints about drugs being over-priced sales without approval: March 03, 2008
- TOI: Delhi, not Mumbai, is migrant mantra:Aug 21, 2006
- TIMES NEWS NETWORK: State plans to cut off water to farmers who have third child: April 14, 2005
- IE: Emotional disorders have been reduced to a biochemical malfunction: Feb 28, 2008
- LM: Six Ideas for a Healthier India: Feb 26, 2008
- TOI: Why the poor have a right to rich hospitals: Feb 25, 2008
- IE: CEHAT:Sexual Assault Evidence Kit: Feb 18,2008
- LM: Gates foundation, Rotary give anti-polio battle a $200 mn – 28th Nov. 2007
- ST STANISLAUS’ School Ex-students insure their teachers health
- TOI : Corporates eye public health centres in rural areas : Nov 15,2007
- IE : Drive against filaria, malnutrition this week : Nov 13,2007
- ET : Effective spending : Nov 13,2007
- ET : How can healthcare be made affordable? : Nov 13,2007
- TOI : Where teens handle health emergencies : Nov 10,2007
- TOI : Disease screening to be made must for schoolgoers : Nov 8,2007
- TOI : Health scheme for urban poor on the cards : Nov 7,2007